On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Scott D. Allen wrote:
> I'd like to chime in with Mr. Mills on this one. I agree with most of what
> he is saying. I too am pretty new to "lists" and have tried Majordomo (w/
> and w/o Majorcool) and LISTSERV. I also (thanks to Mr. Mills) downloaded and
> am testing Mailman. Of the three packages I've tested so far, Majordomo is
> the most difficult to configure/use. Now, here is where I'm going to enter
please note that Mj2 is *totally* different then Mj1 ... Mj2, to
configure/install is a simple 'perl Makefile.PL;make;make install' ... to
configure a new list is as simple as entering the admin interface and
typing 'createlist <listname> <listowner>' and it outputs the four lines
of text you need to add to the aliases file to enable the list ...
See, ppl on this list are stuck in old technology, and are basing opinions
based on it :( Mj2 doesn't have any "permissions problems", since there
are no files for you to create, the admin interface does it all ... Mj2
doesn't have a dozen aliases to create and configure, as its all done
internally, and accessed using 4 aliases for *everything*:
# Aliases for pgsql-novice at hub.org
pgsql-novice: "|/usr/local/majordomo/bin/mj_enqueue -r -d hub.org -l pgsql-novice"
pgsql-novice-request: "|/usr/local/majordomo/bin/mj_enqueue -q -d hub.org -l pgsql-novice"
pgsql-novice-owner: "|/usr/local/majordomo/bin/mj_enqueue -o -d hub.org -l pgsql-novice"
owner-pgsql-novice: pgsql-novice-owner,
# End aliases for pgsql-novice at hub.org
Majordomo1 v1.94.1 was released in April of 1997 ... over three years
ago. Any other work done on it since then, to the best of my knowledge,
has been to patch security problems, and that's it ... so, those using Mj1
right now are using effectively dead code, while the latest, greatest and
what I'd consider most stable remains unused because the developers have
too much they still want to add/to do it to go through the trouble of
giving it a label that means something to the bean counters, and not so
much to the techies ... beta or release ...
*shrug*
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